Originally Posted by
ChicagoRedwing2b
I will add my 2 cents to backup Seri's info about Antidepressents and people with ADD/ADHD meds.
I take Concerta for my ADD, and I now take Lexapro (Antidepressent) diagnosed mildly depressed to help level out my lows and highs more.
I have been on Lexapro for about 2.5 weeks now, and its starting to take more direct effect with me.
Antidepressents take nearly 3 to 4 weeks to build up properly in the human body so taking a few one day will not help anything, except to help you overdose and possibly hulucinate and possible end up in the hospitol.
But I personally have experienced an increase and more vivid, realistic dreams, and have started to induce more lucid dreams.
I have to be careful as my parents both took antidepressents and both started to hulucinate in and out of dreams.
I had a sleep study done not long ago, and was surprised to see the report by the sleep doctor concerning my brain wave activity level compared to normal human levels.
He reported that my brain wave activity during awake hours was 20% higher then normal human average, but during sleep my brain wave activity rose to a 30% higher the normal human average during sleep.
They told me this is typical of people who are higher thinkers, writers, dreamers, inventors, creators, artists, those that can think on a level that far exceeds normal human thought processes.
Particularly I was tested for information processing efficentcy and speed.
My results threw the doctors off as usual, LOL.
I am Dyslexic, ADD, and mildly depressed, and it was easy to see the information processing of linear, logic, left brained information as slower and less efficent.
But what got them going was that my information processing and efficency levels were near 35% higher then normal for phyisophical, psychological, abstract thinking, and free formed thoughts and comprehension of theray and fantasy.
Basically I had trouble doing simple mathmatical word problems in high school becasue the anylitical processing in my brain was screwed up, but I could theraize the concept of quantum physics and time travel as possible and then proceed to explain how it was possible and make perfect sense.